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The Pennsylvania Packet, and Daily Advertiser… [No. 3333
Philadelphia: John Dunlap and David C. Claypoole, 6 October 1789. 4 pp., bifolium (475 x 295 mm). Text in four columns. Clipper ship woodcuts. Disbound, but untrimmed with deckle edges. Condition : minor stitch holes along the gutter margin, separation along the fold repaired. early printing of the bill of rights: “congress shall make no law…” Proposed to the States on 25 September 1789, this newspaper printing is among the earliest encountered and notable for having been published by Declaration of Independence printer John Dunlap. Beginning at the bottom of the first column on the third page (following a review of the acts of Congress passed on the last day of the session), the printing of the Bill of Rights is preceded by the following Preamble: “The Conventions of a number of the states having at the time of their adopting the Constitution expressed a desire, in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers, that further declaratory and restrictive clauses should be added: And as extending the ground of public confidence on the government, will best insure the beneficent ends of its institution -- Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States & that the following Articles be proposed to the legislatures of the several states, as amendments to the Constitution of the United States, all or any of which articles, when ratified by three-fourths of the said legislatures, to be valid to all intents and purposes as part of the Constitution, viz.” The text of twelve articles follows, i.e. including the first two that were not ratified by the States.